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Love of learning can be a trap if you aren't careful. Some people end up being "career students" and get a dozen degrees but never give anything back. Or you can watch 6 hours of Youtube a day and absorb information like a sponge, but never put it to practical use. Love of Learning is one of my signature strengths too. For me, the logical way to turn abstract knowledge into a life purpose is by teaching what you learn. Especially if contribution or something similar is one of your top values. My life purpose is "Summarizing information in an easy-to-digest format and empowering people to pursue their dreams." My ideal medium is writing, especially blogs and articles. For you it might just be making vlogs on Youtube about all the cool new stuff that you're learning. Or creating your own online courses. Maybe you summarize entire books into 5 minute videos for people. Don't just hoard your knowledge, let it shine. Ideally pick one of the topics you've listed that most interests you and go really deep into it, as opposed to trying to cover everything. To achieve this you will need to learn a bunch of new skills along the way. Like how to make a website, or edit a Youtube video, or marketing. But it shouldn't be too hard for someone who loves learning

Honestly I cringed a bit when I saw it, all of Leo's detractors are gonna have a field day with this. There are whole Youtube channels that focus on "debunking" him or calling him out, plus you know this is going up on the RationalWiki page for him lol. More ammo for them. I don't get why someone with a history in pickup would need to resort to using their own website as a dating classified ad. There are so many dating apps. Of course you aren't going to find someone who can be your equal and not put you on a pedestal. Watching Actualized.org videos is one thing, people who regularly come to check the blog or forum are on another level. Hope he is ready to weed through a bunch of people trying to catfish him and make him look ridiculous / leak logs. But his website, his life

If you wake up in the morning and someone else tells you what you have to do, and when you have to do it. Especially if you're stuck in the job to support your family or make ends meet. If quitting your job isn't an option because you'd be bankrupt and homeless in a month if you quit, then you're a slave. Your employer has basically unlimited power to make you do whatever, and you need the job so bad that you can't disagree. In your first example the engineer has to do what his employer says. In your second example, a company owner can decline clients they don't want to work with. He's only a slave to his clients if operating from a place of scarcity instead of abundance, and doesn't think he can find other clients.

I feel like it's time to admit to myself that I've got pretty crippling and life-altering anxiety. I'm constantly worrying about things and considering the worst case scenario for everything. Anxiety impacts most things that I do in a day and how I do them. Possibly also got some mild depression... although it's more like I go through phases where I have no energy and motivation for months, and other times I have lots of it. But it doesn't feel manic/depressive enough to be bipolar. Anyway my partner has been pushing me for a while to either see my family doctor for medication or get someone to talk to. Problem is that my anxiety is so bad that it's like an endless feedback loop. Maybe I should talk to someone about my anxiety to fix it, but I'm already almost too anxious to leave the house or drive, or talk to someone about my feelings. RE: medication - I don't want all the potential side-effects, or changing my brain in a way that makes me feel not like "myself" any more, or just feeling dull/numb all the time. RE: therapy - I've heard too many people say that they had to go through multiple counsellors or therapists to find the right fit. I don't want to potentially go through 5 therapists and years of my time repeating my problems over and over until I find one who can understand me and help. I feel like if I just had the right questions to ask myself, I could introspect and work through it on my own. I've tried working through a self-help CBT website, I think it was from the NHS. But it got too boring and too much theoretical vs practical so I gave up. Also tried moodgym (similar free program out of Australia) with minimal insights and results. Does anyone have any kind of self-help resources for anxiety? Maybe some kind of introspection exercises, meditation, or whatever? On most topics I seem to do best with online courses. So some kind of structured video lessons with workbooks or something would be ideal I think. I get a solid amount of sleep. Good diet / exercise seems to help my mood temporarily but then it gets worse again. I don't drink, smoke, or do drugs. I have a good and fairly easy life, no major childhood traumas or issues. I was hoping that I could just put it off and seek enlightenment and that would fix all my anxiety/depression issues. But at this point it doesn't seem very practical and like I'm putting myself through more unnecessary suffering in the short-term. And the anxiety is bad enough that it might actually be a roadblock to enlightenment.

This is probably a highly biased group to ask based on the posts above. But if you could go back in time, would you have never started taking SSRIs and suffered with the alternative instead? Have you guys found any alternatives to SSRIs that help you cope? Maybe some kind of introspection work or meditation instead?

That's a good start but I think that's still a bit too complicated. Your life purpose needs to be something that you can explain to your grandma in 1 or 2 sentences. Try to cut out the jargon and make it easier to understand. Find another way to say "the relationships and dynamics and systems" and "counter-intuitive behaviors." You might know what you mean, but other people will have trouble understanding. It's also very broad and vague. That's likely why you're having trouble figuring out how to market it. The systems you're describing, that's literally all of life. Each of those topics is hundreds of books. You can't make a one-size-fits-all solution to explain or manage all of those things. Just explaining politics or relationships is a full life purpose on its own. You'll drive yourself insane trying to interconnect them all.

I agree with aurum that mastery of social skills is really broad. Why do you limit mastery of social skills to relationships? There are so many other ways that social skills can interact with our lives. To me sales and marketing are social skills, for example. I would get a piece of paper and write down your tshirt business, and social skills / relationships as 2 options. Then write down everything else you are interested in. Even hobbies you did for fun as a kid that you stopped doing. Then see how each one might overlap with each other... social skills in particular.

Most investment pros can't outperform the market. You're better off putting your money into an index than any particular fund in most cases. If people who invest for a living, have degrees in finance and economics from prestigious institutions, and work for big companies like JP Morgan can't do it, what makes you think that you can? Ask to see all of your dad's trades for the last 6 months or a year. Not just his big wins, ALL OF THEM including all the trades where he lost money, and net it out. See how much he's actually making in the long-term. Maybe he does have some working system. But don't take even your own dad's word for it without really looking at the math. Especially if you're going to put all your savings into it. You'd probably be better off learning how to play online poker instead. It involves learning less math and statistics, less variables and faster to learn, and both stocks and poker have an element of randomness/luck/gambling to them as well as some skill component that may allow you to slightly tilt the odds in your favor. In the long run you're at risk of busting out from both of them.

The big thing that you have to worry about is getting expelled entirely. If you get a mark on your personal record that's basically just a warning? No future employer is going to ask if you received any disciplinary action for cheating. No employer has ever asked to physically see my degree, they just take what's on your resume at face value. Probably won't even be an issue for getting an internship. Unless they want to see your full transcript and there is a big note about it on there. Even then if your grades are good enough, they might let it slide. If they ask you can just say you made one stupid mistake when you were younger, etc etc. Why would you choose to go into such a hard program in the first place then? Is it just pressure and expectation from your parents to be a doctor or a lawyer? (I know that's super common in some cultures, and people with immigrant parents.) Maybe it's a blessing in disguise. But if there's a risk of getting kicked out of your program over it, then you need to figure out what you really do want to do pretty quickly.

Of course there will be exceptions that only got where they are because of who they knew or by pure luck. That doesn't help you any though. All it will do is make you resentful of those who got there the easy way. You have to walk your own path on the assumption that it won't be easy and you won't get any help. It's also hard to know which case applies to certain people. You might assume some people like Paris Hilton are just rich lucky idiots. Of course she comes from a rich family but I've heard she's actually super smart and has great work ethic as well. People didn't just drop a fragrance, clothing, and cosmetic line in her lap, open 50 stores in 40 different countries, and open a resort in her name. Same with Logan Paul. I don't like the guy but I have to admit that he's a business genius. When from the outside it just looks like an idiot running around making vlogs. "Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity" - Seneca

Greens maybe. Fruit no. At least for humans who lived in most of Europe and North America. Fruit is only ripe and available within a small window of a few months each year. What we know as fruit today is not what fruit has historically been. It's all been selectively bred and genetically modified. Apples used to be small and sour, more like crabapples. Wild grapes are so sour that they're almost unpalatable to the average person. Wild bananas are completely packed full of seeds. All full of way more fiber and way less sugar than the fruit we eat today. A nice treat for our ancestors a few times per year, but not a staple.

A while ago I got into the habit of checking the blog every day. Now I check the forum pretty much every day. Usually just once a day, and not necessarily every category. I do recognize a few friendly faces that I see regularly and value the input of.

How will you define "emotional reaction?" How do you measure how intense an emotional reaction is? What is the cutoff going to be where you decide to record it or not? If you're honest with yourself... I think you're going to spend most of your day writing stuff down. Your day is just a constant wave of one emotion changing to the next.

I'm a big Bitcoin fan but I still think 100k by the end of next year is unrealistic. 3 - 4 years maybe. Every bull run is lengthening -- it's taking more time to go up by a smaller % than last time.

Tucker Carlson is intolerable even to most of the right. Even in 4 years I don't think Ben Shapiro is a possibility based just on the fact that he's Jewish. Maybe one of the other "intellectual darkweb" guys is a possibility. Personally I'm looking forward to Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson vs Kanye West in 2024 or something similarly ridiculous.

Dude you're such a naysayer that you're burying your own potential. If you're unhappy and failing in life you have no one to blame but yourself. Just because you don't think someone is willing to pay for something, that doesn't make it true. Do a Google search: https://ca.indeed.com/Social-Media-Manager-jobs Average wedding photographer cost -- $2,400 for one day https://www.theknot.com/content/average-cost-wedding-photographer#:~:text=Based on an internal study,the most popular wedding vendors. Yeah, literally everything that will be coded is already done /s You can't, I don't know, think outside the box and make an Excel sheet to sell people to help them figure out when to plant each crop in their garden. Or learn Unity and C# and start making your own video game. Yup, every good idea for a video game has been taken and there will never be a unique one again. $50,000 per summer/winter - https://www.muziford.com/blog/2019/october/18/how-much-money-can-you-make-plowing-snow.htm Again..... you act like there's no such thing as landscaping companies that are already doing this full-time. What the fuck is this scarcity mindset? Nobody out there wants their grass cut or snow shoveled? Can you hear yourself? Do you want me to go down the rest of the list? "I can't start doing any of those jobs today while putting zero effort in" -- You sound fucking ridiculous man. Enjoy staying broke. Now we get to the real root of the issue. You're lazy and think you're too good for an honest day's work. You expect instant results with zero effort.

It sounds like you already know what your options are: - Quit your job with no plan - Wait a little bit, quit your job with a plan - Wait a little longer, quit your job with a life purpose Unless your feelings go from "burnt out" to "unbearable", what's the harm in staying a little longer? Take it one day, one week, one month at a time. Tell yourself that you'll look for new jobs for 3 months before quitting. Although if you go 3 months without landing another job, that's a pretty good indication that quitting with no plan could be disastrous. Have you completed the life purpose course? If not, I would stay at your job, save up the money for it, and do that before quitting. Realize that even having a life purpose is no guarantee that you won't get burnt out sometimes. The LP course literally has a section called "Accept drudgery."

Very low risk. Life is too good to rock the boat, and Biden being in charge instead of Trump won't actually change the day-to-day that much for most people. There are too many distractions. People are too comfortable and placated. I have lots of right-wing friends and none of them are raging mad or suggesting to take action in any way. They are just feeling defeated more than anything. Actual white supremacists like Richard Spencer welcome a Biden win in hopes of accelerationism, he posted a picture of his ballot for Biden on Twitter. You might get one or two individual lunatics who go shoot some place up. That was a risk no matter which side won. But you aren't going to get militias out in force unless Trump somehow manages to find actual, indisputable proof of election fraud.

I listed 20+ of them above. There are literally hundreds of businesses you can bootstrap with $0 - $100 to start with. Lots of services where all you need to get started is your time, labor, or knowledge. No inventory, no equipment, no need to rent an office or storefront. No employees to hire. Go browse all the jobs people are offering on Fiverr for some inspiration.

I would recommend caution against using language like "plague." Try to have some empathy and put yourself in their shoes. They are just people too. Misguided, but people. They just ended up down the wrong rabbit hole. Don't think that you're immune from propaganda and misinformation if you had been exposed to the same things they had. It's a travesty what social media and fake news is doing to these people. It's literally creating different realities for Republicans and Democrats where the other side is the enemy. Realize that Trump supporters are essentially victims of brainwashing in all of this. People like to think that if they lived during the time of Hitler that they'd be a conscientious objector and not go along with it. But the truth is that most people did then, and would do the same again today under the right circumstances. Referring to human beings as "a plague" or "vermin" is exactly what the Nazis did. Be careful about vilifying your fellow citizens in this way. These are your relatives, your friends, your neighbors, your coworkers. People who if you weren't talking about politics, you'd likely get along perfectly fine with. The solution here isn't rounding up Trump supporters and sending them to re-education camps. It's love and empathy. I've done work helping to de-radicalize former white supremacists, alt-right people, and neonazis. If you approach them with confrontation, condescension, or violence, you'll only make them dig deeper into their beliefs. These people think they are justified in their beliefs... no one becomes a racist or homophobe to intentionally be a dick. They genuinely think they're doing what's right for their society and the future of their children. You need to offer the ability to discuss their beliefs free of judgement, but gently question and make them realize themselves why their own policies may be harming them. It's hard 1-in-1 work, there isn't one secret phrase that you can whisper and wake these people up. There are many intertwined beliefs that are unique to each person that need to be worked through one at a time. And in many cases you can't help them to question their beliefs until they're ready to do it themselves. Love and understanding is the answer. You will not overpower or reform 20% or more of your country by force, anger, or belittling. All the smarmy John Oliver / Stephen Colbert / Trevor Noah / etc etc clips attacking and making fun of these people only makes things worse.

ngl this topic is kinda a slap in the face to Leo when there's literally an Ultimate Life Purpose Course on this very site that you must know about, which will answer all of these questions Do you legitimately not know about the course, or is your question "how can I get everything out of the course from a book or other source without investing $250 in myself"? How did only 1 out of 7 replies so far mention the life purpose course?

Tell me about your circumstances. Do you think you have it worse off than this guy?

As another non-American watching on the sidelines, I'm not sure if I see a peaceful way out. Whether Trump wins or loses, people are gonna have to reconcile that 70 million people in their country still think he's the best guy for the job. Those people don't just disappear into the shadows for 4 years if he loses. This isn't just a president thing. Half the population has a fundamentally different viewpoint on most issues. Abortion, climate change, guns, police, immigration. You have to figure out a way to live with them. Whether it's even possible to have a dialogue, or if that is gonna split the country in half with civil war or what, idk. I dunno how you resolve half the country wanting a system like Northern Europe and half wanting a system closer to the Middle East. The media vilifies and dismisses Trump supporters like they're a small minority. But the election is showing that they make up nearly half of your country, and have actually grown in numbers since last election. There is a huge disconnect between the people in a few big cities creating the news and television shows and social media platforms, and the rest of the country. Listening to Democrat friends talk, they literally don't understand how this is possible. They can't fathom how Trump is polling so close with all the stuff he's done that they interpret as evil. More people seem to encapsulated in their own news bubble than ever. To the point that Democrats and Republicans are literally seeing reality differently. I don't know how you get people to willingly break that veil of illusion en masse, particularly when talking heads on both sides are propping it up.

Many people whose opinions I value on the subject (PhDs in cryptography, etc) are predicting a $100,000 Bitcoin in 3 - 4 years. Personally I think it's too risky not to hold some. That doesn't mean you have to go crazy with it. The average person who doesn't understand how it works probably shouldn't invest more than 1-5% of their net worth into it. RE: Bitcoin's energy usage -- For most other coins like Ethereum, Cardano, Vechain, Polkadot, Chainlink, etc it's a non-issue. These coins operate on a proof-of-stake model as opposed to proof-of-work like Bitcoin. If it's a big issue to you, just do some research and choose one of those other coins that makes sense and appeals to you. But I think not having any exposure to crypto will prove to be a mistake.

I'd be down for a Discord group or something where like-minded people can informally chat and share information. I'm less interested in a formal mastermind where we have a video call once a week or something. We sound uncannily similar in a lot of ways haha. About me: Canadian (Southwestern Ontario) Early 30s Bachelor of Business Studies degree (Accounting major) - Basically a BComm for people who already completed a business diploma at college beforehand. Online business - My "full time" business is freelance writing. In addition to writing for clients, I have 3 blogs / articles with websites of my own that are generating a bit of ad revenue and affiliate sales. Looking to create an online course once I build up enough of a following. I've watched probably thousands of hours of Youtube videos about online business, and taken a few good online courses. I'm familiar with all the online business concepts you listed. This year I also started a webcomic. I'm currently learning Unity / C# to create my own video game but still in the very early stages. I ran my own Minecraft server for over a year, but it was becoming too much and unenjoyable so I handed it over to one of my mods. I've made a sizeable investment into crypto this year... currently about 10-15% of my savings are in it. I was into it in the past but then took many years off. Seems like the right time to get back into it. Weak points / things I need to work on - I meditate far less than I should. Haven't been able to get the habit to stick. Been struggling with eating healthy, exercising, and weight loss for the past couple of years. Have some good progress and then slide back. Stress/anxiety. Personal development - Very knowledgeable about diet and exercise despite not actually putting it into practice haha. Done the life purpose course, future authoring program, and other stuff like that. Been watching Leo religiously every week for years. I wanna do Sadhguru's Inner Engineering program and go in a sensory deprivation tank as a reward for myself once I can manage to meditate for 90 or 120 days straight. I don't think I can get the most benefit out of it before I put in the basic meditation work. Ditto for psychedelics. I'd like to try them but mentally probably not ready yet. Not enlightened yet Things I'd want to do if I was a multi-millionaire or billionaire: - A large-scale underwater exploration operation like EVNautilus. Both to identify new deep-sea species and map the bottom of the entire ocean, as well as locate and recover sunken ships (Approximately 95% of the ocean is still unexplored. We know more about space than the ocean.) - Create a self-sufficient community / commune. Living off-grid and growing my own food would be ideal, as long as I can still have a high-speed internet connection and solar electricity - Form an online community to help people achieve financial independence, mentoring program, give people the knowledge and startup funding needed to create their inventions or achieve their dreams. - Go treasure hunting and prospecting, panning for gold. Maybe buy an entire old mine or ghost town. - Make a game studio and hire a few people to bring my video game ideas to life without having to learn all the coding, art, music, etc stuff myself to do it.